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30 unusual facts about The Matrix


American Choreography Awards

“Dance is a barometer of our culture. I want scholars, but more importantly, kids and students, to know how and where these movements came from- that the Nicholas Brothers are tied to break-dancing, and that Astaire by defying gravity, leads to The Matrix Choreography.” – Larry Billman

Beyond Paradise

It did well at the box office in Hawaii; according to Variety Magazine, it beat The Matrix in ticket sales in Hawaii.

Candygram For Mongo

Though the term “The Red Pill” is often associated with the films in the Matrix series, the band stated that the album title is a coincidence based upon an inside joke and has nothing to do with the popular film series.

Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych

The film contains many elements of parody and jokes about The Matrix, Star Wars, The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, Seventeen Moments of Spring and other famous movies.

Doug Glanville

The article compares the decision to Neo's choosing between blue and red pills in the movie The Matrix.

Hal Oreif

Hal also served for 9 years as Chief Technology Officer in Warner Bros. Entertainment where he scaled websites and mobile applications for brands such as Harry Potter and The Matrix getting 100s of Millions Visitors per day .

Human 2.0

"Resistance" uses a quote from the movie The Matrix: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer."

Ian Kerr

Professor Kerr is also the originator of Kerr’s Postulate which states that in any discussion of law and technology, the longer a discussion continues the probability of including a reference to The Matrix approaches one.

Ilmārs Poikāns

He has used the pseudonym Neo (of The Matrix), and is also known in the press as Latvia's "Robin Hood".

Jesus Army Productions

From within this production came the critically acclaimed "Jesus is the One" which drew a parallel between Jesus Christ and Neo of the movie The Matrix and "The Must-Have Trade Expo".

John Gaeta

2000 BAFTA Awards for Best Achievement in Special Effects, for The Matrix

After co-supervising development for 3-D paint effect stylizations and LIDAR laser scanning for What Dreams May Come (1998 Visual Effects Oscar winner), Gaeta began his first solo effects supervision project for Larry and Andy Wachowski's film, The Matrix.

Kaoklai Kaennorsing

Kaoklai is being called "Matrix defense" because his defense skills looked like Neo from the movie of The Matrix.

Kenichi Ebina

He performed at the Chicago auditions, doing a Matrix-style "dance-ish" performance that wowed the judges, gaining "yes" votes from all four judges.

Louis Svitek

His work can also be found in many movie soundtracks such as The Matrix and Blue Hill Avenue.

Matt Schwartz

1998 Co-write 'Dissolved girl' – Massive attack (featured on The Matrix) Virgin records UK Charts #1 album (Mezzanine)

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Gaines replaces Sherman's girlfriend in the first film, Carla Purty, because the actress who played her, Jada Pinkett, left due to marrying Will Smith, her pregnancy, and later her signing on to the sequels to The Matrix.

Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil

People spend most of their time in full-immersion virtual reality (Kurzweil has cited The Matrix as a good example of what the advanced virtual worlds will be like, without the dystopian twist).

Rajkumar Kohli

As well as copying his own 1970s films, the film copied scenes from The Matrix, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mission: Impossible II and The Mummy.

Rhinoceros Party

He stated he named the new party (then under the name "neorhino") for the Rhinoceros Party and for Neo, the Matrix character.

Sam Neves

His M.A. thesis at Newbold College of Higher Education was on the spiritual messages that could be elucidated from The Matrix series of films.

Simulacron-3

The Matrix (1999) described a world whose population is unaware that the world containing their minds is a virtual reality simulacrum.

Steal This Film

Material found in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain"; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live.

Suprasternal notch

This maneuver was choreographed into the subway station fight scene in the movie The Matrix.

The Fanimatrix

The short film is set within the Matrix universe, shortly before the discovery of "The One" (in The Matrix).

The Fanimatrix (full title The Fanimatrix: Run Program) is a science fiction/action fan film based on The Matrix, released on the Internet on 27 September 2003, written and directed by Steven A. Davis and Rajneel Singh.

The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture

# "Look to Your Orb for the Warning" by Monster Magnet – 4:42

A track similar to "The Eyes of Truth" titled "The Conquest of Truth" composed and recorded by Paul Hanson for Music Junkies was used for the DVD main menu.

The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score

In September 2008 Varèse Sarabande released an expanded to 78 minutes version of the score, that was limited to 3000 copies.

Tim Girvin

Creative offerings range from motion picture brand development—being responsible for several hundred cinema identity programs including The Matrix brandmarks, to the website design of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the physical design of the new Microsoft museum, restaurants, shops and related experience design programs.


Amick Byram

A well-known sessions artist in Los Angeles, California, Byram has sung in over 100 films, including The Prince of Egypt ( as Moses), Shrek, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Hercules, Mulan, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, The Road to El Dorado, and The Matrix.

Andi Osho

In 2011, she won the Comic Relief episode with The Matrix trilogy as her specialist subject and then in 2012, she took part in a regular episode choosing host John Humphrys as her specialist subject.

Anthony Brandon Wong

His most well known role is that of Ghost from The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, a role which was greatly expanded in the video game Enter the Matrix, in which he starred alongside Jada Pinkett Smith as the lead.

Ass Burgers

The leader, who is a parody of Morpheus from The Matrix, gives Stan a glass of Jameson Irish Whiskey as a "serum" so he can interact with the "illusion world", and charges him with convincing others to see the world as they do.

Bette Ford

Her voice can be heard in The Animatrix, the companion animated DVD of the film trilogy The Matrix, and numerous commercials.

Bob McCarron

Some notable films for which he has done the prosthetic makeup include: The Matrix, Vertical Limit (2000), Queen of the Damned (2002) and The Piano (1993).

Daniel Langlois

Softimage software was used to create 3-D effects in such films as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, Titanic, Men in Black, Twister, Jurassic Park, The Mask and The City of Lost Children.

Eduardo Spohr

The list of works of fiction which influenced Eduardo goes from Highlander to The Matrix, through childhood cartoons like Saint Seiya.

Imaginationland Episode II

The guards suspect Butters is connected with the terrorist attack and bring him shirtless and in chains before the Council of Nine, consisting of some of the most highly regarded of all imaginary characters: Aslan, Gandalf, Glinda, Jesus, Luke Skywalker, Morpheus, Popeye, Wonder Woman, and Zeus.

John Shelton Lawrence

In Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty's Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation (2005), he explores the kind of fascism that is symbolically conveyed by heroic figures such as Luke Skywalker of Star Wars (1977) and Neo in The Matrix series.

Know thyself

Lana and Andy Wachowski used one of the Latin versions (temet nosce) of this aphorism as inscription over the Oracle's door in their movies The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

Marcus Chong

Chong recently completed his first novel, entitled The Arch. He was inspired by his acting in The Matrix and accounts of Alexandre Dumas, whom he considers a hero.

Mercury4

BMG recruited hit production team the Matrix who had produced hits for Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff to write and produce their first single "Get Me Some".

Mike Morasky

He is also known for his groundbreaking visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix trilogies as well as founding the seminal underground art band Steel Pole Bath Tub.

Navras

The song contains an adaption of the Asato ma mantra found in the Hindu sacred text the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, section I.iii.28, used in the soundtrack of the movie trilogy The Matrix.

Samantha Moore

Samantha collaborated with well known industry songwriters such as Curt Frasca, Sabelle Breer, Kara DioGuardi, Robbie Nevil, Matthew Wilder and The Matrix team of Lauren Christy, Graham Edwards and Scott Spock.

Scary Movie 3

The film's plot significantly parodies the films The Ring, Signs, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and 8 Mile.

Stefan G. Bucher

Starting his career in the United States as an art director at Portland, Oregon advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy, Bucher went on to design numerous CD packages including Brand New Day: The Remixes for Sting, the soundtrack for the motion picture The Matrix with Keanu Reeves.

The End of Mr. Y

The description of the Troposphere has been compared to the novels of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, and shares similarities to The Matrix.

The Tender Hook

The Tender Hook is the second feature by writer/ director Jonathan Ogilvie (Emulsion, Despondent Divorcee, This Film Is a Dog), and stars Hugo Weaving (Little Fish, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix), Rose Byrne (Marie Antoinette, Casanova, Troy) and Matthew Le Nevez (Emulsion, Peaches).

Vinnie Roslin

The highlight of Roslin's time with the band came in early 1970 when Steel Mill visited San Francisco and performed at The Matrix and Fillmore West, playing on the same bill as Elvin Bishop, Boz Scaggs and Grin.